The Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act would free state and local government from court orders that are unnecessary to protect rights, yet prevent states and localities from adopting to the lessons of experience and changing priorities.

The character of the laws of the global financial system is such that a common thread ran through the behavior of individuals, institutions, authorities, and economies.

Frank explains the problem of class action tolling in mass tort personal injury litigation.

The recent settlements of lawsuits against WorldCom and Enron introduced political considerations into the process of settling class actions.

Professor Theodore Eisenberg will discuss his new article Attorney’s Fees in Class Action Settlements: An Empirical Study (coauthored with Geoffrey Miller) which argues that attorney’s fees have not been growing over the past decade, contrary to conventional wisdom. Eisenberg’s research suggests that the general assumption that attorneys receive about one-third...

Generally, campaign press releases are unrelenting twaddle. But Romney put out a decent one today… better, frankly, than his not-too-dramatic op-ed in today’s WaPo. (Really, Mitt, shipbuilding will be job one in taking on Iran?)

“President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus”—Okay, we get it. The Republican candidates must move beyond repeating that mantra.

The president, several governors, and most physicians are again calling for reform of the medical malpractice system. Proponents of reform claim that the periodic spikes in medical malpractice insurance premiums are threatening to drive physicians out of practice, and can only be reduced by limitations on malpractice awards and other...